Game table



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ALLEN H. SEABLE, OF SALT "LAKE CITY, UTAH.

GAME TABLE.

Application filed April 3, 1923. Serial No. 629,614.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. ALLEN 'H. SEAHLE,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Salt Lake City, countyof Salt Lake,

5 and State of Utah. have invented a certain new and useful Game Table,of which the following, together with the accompanying drawing,constitutes a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a game table,

r erably, a plane surface, surrounded by an elevated rail or coping of aheight sulficient to support a' resilient head or cushion extendingalong the perimeter of the coping. and at a height from. the surface ofthe 00 table, such, that the balls used in playingthe game, shall strikethe bead or cushion at points somewhat above the center of the balls.

On the table surface within the coping, is arranged a series ofwicketsor arches, each of which may have the shape of the letter U inverted.These wickets may be arranged in an endless vriety of ways, dependingupon the nature of the games to be played. For example, the wickets maybe arranged in number and location after the manner of the ordinaryoutdoor game of croquet, as indicated in Fig. 1.

In order that the balls shall rebound from the wickets it is desirablethat the latter should have resilient properties, and

5 instance, as rubber tubing.

In playing the games, ordinary cues are provided, with which'to impartmotion to the balls. The halls are shunted back and showing an alternateconstruction of the I provide a table structure, having. pref? forthbetween the resilient bead and the wickets, through'the wickets, or fromwicket to wicket, in such ways as may be suggested by the individualjudgment of each player, and conforming to the rules of any particulargame.

In the drawing, I

Fig. '1 represents a plan of the table;

Fig. 2, a transverse section; v

3, a section, considerably enlarged, taken'on the line 3--3, Fig. 1;

Fig. 4r, a detail of the wickets enlarged to the same scale as used inFig. 8;

Fig. 5, a section on 5--5, Fig. 4:;

Fig. 6, one of the balls, drawn to sub stantially thesame scale as Figs.31 and-4;

Fig. 7, an elevation of one of the cues drawn to substantially the samescale as Figs. land 2; and i 1 8, a fragmentary section, actual-size,

head.

Referring to the drawing, 10 represents the top of a table, which may bemade of wood, slate or other material, andmay have covering 12 of feltor other fabric. The" top 10 may-be joined at its perimeter, to the sidemembers 13 and the end members j 14, these projecting abovethe plane ofthe table, toform the coping 15. A bead or cushion 16 may extendentirely around the inner perimeter of the coping. 35

The bead may be formed of a flat strip" 17, of rubber, or otherresilient material folded around a core 18, the two folds of the rubberstrip being brought together as shown at 19 and 20, (Fig. .The twoportions 19 and 20 may be firmly held down on the coping by means of theclamping strip 21 secured by screws 24:. 'Another way of forming thebead (Fig. 8) is to mold the resilient covering around the core 40, thusallowing the covering to be made a little heavier at the points whereneeded, for instance at 4:1 and 12.

The wickets 26 may be formed of a core 9/? of metal or other materialfor strength, and be encased in a covering 28 of any resilient material,preferably rubber tubing, as shown in detail in Figs. 4 and 5. The lowerextremities of the wicket cores 27, may be reduced in cross-section toform shanks 29, as shown in Fig. 4, thus providing the shoulderedportions 80 for hearing on washers 31,- which latter may be countersunkin the upper surface of the top 10. The wickets may .be threaded anddrawndown tightly by means .of the nuts 32, hearing against the washers34.

The structure as described, may be supported upon legs 35, or ifdesired, the legs may be omitted, and the game structure be set upon anyordinary table of suitable s1ze.

The cue 36, Fig. 7 may be tipped with leather at .37, in the usualmanner. The balls 338 should preferably-be true spheres, as nearly aspossible, and may be made of lignum vitae, hard maple, or othersubstances. 7

As an example of the manner in which games for which this table isqadapted, are played, I connect (Fig. 1) in broken lines 45, a succession ofwickets to be passed through, so that the player-may win in game modeledaifter ordinary croquet, pre viously mentioned. (Dbviously, it; is notpossible to strike a ball from any :one position, and have '1t1fol1ow:the course -mc licated. However, :by causing the bald to. be shuntedover the table plane along :a series of connecting lines few of whichare -indicated by dots and das'hes'at 46) touching various points on thewickets and head, the ball cain,in a series of well planned shots? bemade to pass-through the wickets in the order desired.

While for convenience, aspecil'ic. embodiment of this invention isherein shown and described, it should be clearly imderstoc-id that thedetailed ,pa-rts thereof, may, .or may not. be shown inthe preferredform and f-u-rther,.1-that z-the preferred forms may by varied from timeto time as the development of the invention and the .arts with whichllit is identified, progress.

To the skilled."inquiner,, therefore, that which is an essential-andcharacteristic part of this invention, will :be readily discernible fromthe claims in which its spirit is broadly generalized.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim is:

- 1. A game apparatus comprising a table structure having a planesurface, a coping projecting upwardly from the said surface, a resilientbead extending along the said coping, and a plurality of wickets havingresilient properties, positioned in a predetermined arrangement on saidtable surface within the said coping, each wicket consisting of a corein an elastic jacket or skin.

2. A game apparatuscomprising a table structure having a plane surface,a coping connected to the said table structure at the perimeter of thesaid surface, a resilient bead arranged longitudinally along the insideof the said coping,-the said head being spaced apart upwardly from thetable surface, a plurality of wicketseach having a non-resilient coreencased in a resilient extended jacket, the said bead and wickets beingarranged in predetermined mutual relation for shuntingrolling bodiesover the surface of the said table.

3. A game stiaicture having a playing surface, a cushion extending alongthe perimeter of said -surface, resilient wickets spaced apart from eachother and from the said cushion within thesaid perimeter, bodies adaptedto roll on the said surface, wickets having extended tubular jackets andmeans for imparting motion to said bodies.

4. A game table having a playings-in'face, a coping projecting upwardly.therefrom, .a resilient member protruding inwardly from said coping, andresilient wickets having tubular elastic skins arranged within the saidcoping.

5. A game table having a playing surface, a coping having .a resilientportion projecting upwardly from said surface, and wickets havingresilient portions, all said resilientportions being arranged in spacedrelation to each other and consisting of tubular, :U-

shaped, elastic skins.

In testimony whereof, I sign my name hereto.

ALLEN SEARLE.

